Nicholas Redmayne

The Hon. Sir Nicholas John Redmayne, 2nd Baronet (1 February 1938 – 18 October 2008), was an English stockbroker and investment banker, who became a director of Kleinwort Benson.

In his early life he was a Grenadier Guards officer.

He was the son of Martin Redmayne and his wife Anne Griffiths. His father was a Conservative politician who became Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury.^[1]

The young Redmayne was educated at Radley College in Oxfordshire and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He was then commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, serving from 1958 to 1962.^[1]

In 1963, Redmayne entered the London Stock Exchange and between then and 1996 was with Grieveson Grant and Kleinwort Benson.^[1] In the 1980s he played a large part in developing Kleinwort Benson as a leading investment bank.^[1] By the early 1990s he was a director and Joint Head of Equity Securities.^[2] In 1994, Redmayne and D. C. Clementi were appointed as Joint Chief Executives of Investment Banking.^[3] In 1995, his last appointment was as chairman of KBIM, while continuing as joint chief executive.^[4]

In 1964, Redmayne's father was created the first Redmayne baronet of Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire. On the death of his father in 1983, he succeeded as the second baronet.^[1]

On 7 September 1963, at Stratford-on-Avon, Redmayne married Ann Saunders, a daughter of Frank Saunders. Before divorcing in 1976, they had two children: Camilla Jane (1966) and Giles Martin (1968), later 3rd baronet. On 25 May 1978, Redmayne married secondly Christine Diane Wood Fazakerley, daughter of Thomas Wood Fazakerley.^[5][6]

In 1968, Redmayne was living at 39 Hans Place, Knightsbridge, and was a member of the Carlton Club.^[7] In 2003 he was living at Walcote Lodge, Walcote, Leicestershire.^[5]